Personal Robotics Lab

Robots are extremely effective in environments like factory floors that are
structured for them, and currently ineffective in environments like our homes
that are structured for humans. The Personal Robotics Lab of the Robotics
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is developing the fundamental building
blocks of perception, navigation, manipulation, and interaction that will enable
robots to perform useful tasks in environments structured for humans

We are also in the process of publicly publishing several
libraries we use internally for planning, perception, and control, and much
of our work is open source and available on
GitHub.

HERB

HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler, serves as the realistic testbed for all of our
algorithms and as a focal point of our industry and academic collaborations. He is a
bimanual mobile manipulator comprised of two Barret WAM arms on a Segway base equipped
with a suite of image and range senors.

Lately, Herb's taken on quite the life of his own. You can keep up with his exploits
on his homepage

Contact Us

Press

We love to talk about our work, however we receive more requests
of this nature than we can handle. Please contact
Byron Spice
about your request and we'll do our best.

Undergraduates

We're always looking for capable, hardworking undergraduates to join the lab.
See the undergrads page for information on funding and
projects we'd like help with.